Leah Kim graduated from UCLA with a degree in Economics, but it wasn’t long before she realized her life would be much better spent on the mat than in a cubicle. With the guidance of her first mentor Ally Hamilton, she has devoted her life to yoga: to studying, practicing, teaching, living, breathing, surrendering to, and just trying to be yoga. Leah had the privilege of regularly practicing with many internationally recognized teachers, most notably Bryan Kest and Erich Schiffmann, while living for nearly a decade in the modern-day yoga mecca of Santa Monica. This is where she built her teaching foundation and turned her heart's passion into a professional reality. She taught privately and also built a full schedule of classes at studios and high-end gyms such as Santa Monica Power Yoga and Equinox Fitness.

During the summer of 2007, Leah moved halfway across the globe to Hong Kong on an intuitive whim. She has always had a gypsy spirit, and envisioned that one day she would travel the world teaching yoga. Within two weeks of her arrival in this completely brand new land, where the relatively new yoga scene was picking up major momentum, she was offered a full time teaching post at Pure Yoga, the most well-known yoga studio chain in Asia. In Hong Kong Leah met her present mentor, Twee Merrigan, a global citizen visiting and teaching in a new country every two weeks. Leah often joins Twee on her travels, serving as her assistant.

Most recently, Leah has become Nike’s Global Yoga Ambassador. She travels on behalf of Nike’s yoga program as their spokesperson and head trainer.

Leah feels that the intuitive whim that led her to Hong Kong was a divine nudge onto a greater platform of teaching and service. She is humbled by and grateful for the opportunity to share her own realizations and discoveries, hoping to help her fellow yogis breathe, move, and flow... open, strengthen, and heal... together enjoying the journey of this ever-brightening path.

Leah brings years of dedicated practice, study, and training to her teaching, rooting into the traditional foundation of yoga, but also soaring out into a contemporary understanding and integration into the truth of each individual today. She honors all the layers of the practice, through which you can open into your infinite potentiality, physical and otherwise. She teaches the physical postures as a way to stay vibrant, healthy, and well, and offers various styles including Power / Vinyasa Yoga, Prana Flow Yoga, Yin Yoga, and Nike Dynamic Yoga. She recognizes the physical benefits of getting stronger, leaner, more flexible and more balanced; through her own practice, she has become more connected to and comfortable in her body. As yoga has transformed and empowered her on more metaphysical levels as well, she also offers her teachings as an opportunity to uncover your truth and open your heart. Her teachings dive into deeper layers of exploration: quieting the mind, calming the emotions, and awakening the spirit, and celebrating the mysteriously powerful breath that weaves itself through it all.